Musis musas,

Said Jove to his lass,

Musæ musis.

Can ambrosia beat this?


DECLENSIONS OF NOUNS ADJECTIVE.

Some nouns adjective are declined with three terminations—as a pacha of three tails would be, if he were to make a proposal to an English heiress—as bonus, good—tener, tender. Sweet epithets! how forcibly they remind us of young Love and a leg of mutton.

Bonus, bona, bonum,

Thou little lambkin dumb,

Boni, bonæ, boni,